Curiously Quotes
77 quotes by 72 authors
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There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.…
— Walt Kelly
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It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for…
— Francis Galton
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English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope…
— Alan Coren
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When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost…
— Joseph Campbell
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
— Walter Pater
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Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.
— Clay Shirky
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The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.
— Charles Darwin
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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris…
— Natalie Babbitt
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One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.
— Carl Van Vechten
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
— Joseph Conrad
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Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all…
— Frederick H. Evans
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Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say…
— Paul de Man
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A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog,…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence…
— Andrew Solomon
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We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.…
— George Eliot
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If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with…
— Joan Didion
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The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some…
— Heinz Pagels
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There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting…
— Jo Boaler
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
— Irwin Shaw
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An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the…
— Andrew Greeley
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